<p>The Complete Ranking: Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2013</p>
<p>The</a> Complete Ranking: Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2013 - Businessweek</p>
<p>Wow Texas-Austin skyrocketed to the top 10 from nowhere.</p>
<p>Why should employer opinion matter when ranking b schools? The only relevant criteria on the list are percent of graduates employed full time, average starting salary, and possibly student satisfaction.</p>
<p>“Wow Texas-Austin skyrocketed to the top 10 from nowhere.”</p>
<p>Because academic institutions dramatically change in 365 days. Another reason why this ranking is considered a joke.</p>
<p>Interesting. Some surprisingly low ranks:</p>
<p>Student Survey Rank:
Berkeley 46
Georgetown 43
CMU 92
USC 62</p>
<p>Employer Survey Rank:
MIT 80 (?!)</p>
<p>Well that’s not really surprising…why should it be?</p>
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<p>The only surprise is that McCombs might have had to skyrocket in the first place. It is simply one of the very top business schools at all levels --from undergraduate to the PhD level. And this does not even account for its BHP. As an example, using one of the cornerstone of a business degree such as accounting, there are simply no better schools as the schools has been ranked 1st for UG, Masters, and PhD in that discipline and for years. In addition, the UG business programs are full four years, and not that weaker sauce of 2 years “specialty” degree.</p>
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<p>And yes, the rankings are mostly jokes. See the above reason for why this one has been a joke for a long time.</p>
<p>And speaking of ridicule, how about that glorified husbandry program at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that is supposed to have become a leading UG business program!</p>
<p>^I was thinking about the same thing. Isn’t it the program that gives out As like candies on the Halloween?</p>
<p>^^^Easy grading often translates to student satisfaction.</p>
<p>businessweek ranking is inherently biased as it is based on “student survey”. I think employment placement and how high your starting salary should be the main factors on how good a school is. My friend at ND told me their dean pressure them to vote excellent in every single field for the survey.</p>
<p>This ranking makes me lol. MIT drops to #19 from #6. Austin rises from #17 to #9. Wharton ranked 5th? Notre Dame ranked 16 ‘index points’ higher than Haas? Ha.</p>